Straight Pride
Time: All the time
Place: Everywhere
It's beautiful. No one is knocking it. But I get sick and tired of hearing people say that gays don't need Gay Pride parades.
"What's there to be proud of?"
The fact that we're here, and that our experience and our unique contributions are important, that we have our own identity, and that we may contribute a verse to the power play that Whitman spoke of...that's what we have to be proud of.
I get sick and tired of people saying that gays make fools of themselves at Gay Pride parades because some dress in funny costumes.
Hey, it's a parade. It's supposed to be fun. And straight people have been known to wear funny costumes when they're our partying.
I get sick and tired of hearing how Gay Pride parades are too overtly sexual.
If anybody is unaware of the fact that straight people put their sexuality on display all the time, then they're not paying attention.
Gay people, even out and proud gay people, have to be careful of when and where they are demonstrative, so it's nice to get the chance to let your hair down in public now and then without worrying. But some begrudge us for this and claim that the skimpy costumes--which everyone does not wear, by the way--is a sign that we're all about sex and that love, friendship and relationships aren't important to us. What bullshit. Bigots who say things like that are just looking for reasons to excuse their hate.
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